The Medical Freedom Channel

“Beans and green vegetables such as broccoli and spinach which are high in folic acid help prevent pancreatic cancer but vitamin supplements do not help, a Swedish study published this week showed. People who eat foods containing 350 micrograms of folic acid per day have a 75 percent lower risk of developing pancreatic cancer than those who ingest less than 200 micrograms, showed the study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. ‘Those who ate the most folic acid ran the lowest risk,’ researcher Susanna Larsson, a nutritional epidemiologist at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute who led the study, told AFP. To ingest 350 micrograms of folic acid, a person would need to eat about four portions of broccoli, she said, noting that an average Swede would normally eat around 200 micrograms per day.” (03/16/06)